Churn.



No. 758,641. PATENTED MAY 3,1904. w. L. eoonwm.

GHURN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 16, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

I I i 4 v v .Airm s' WWW Patented May 3, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

WARREN LEE GOODVVIN, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

OHURN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 758,641, dated May 3,1904.

Application filed May 16, 1903. Serial No. 157,462. (No model.)

To all lull/0127, it nury concern/.-

Be it known that I, WARREN LEE G001)- WIN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State ofGeorgia, have invented a new and useful Churn, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to means for supporting and operating churns, andhas for its object to provide a simple, cheaply-constructed, andeasily-applied device whereby a churnbody, preferably of the stonewareor crockery form, may be suspended in position to be vibrated to producethe necessary agitation to cause the separation of the butter particles.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction, ashereinafter shown and described, and specified in the claims.

In the drawings illustrative of the invention, in which correspondingparts are denoted by like designating characters, Figure 1 is a sideelevation, and Fig. 2 is a plan View, of the device complete. Fig. 3 isan enlarged sectional detail of the cover and dasher mechanism. Fig. 4is a section on the line 1 4 of Fig. 3 looking in the direction of thearrow.

The improved device may be employed in connection with any of theordinary forms of barrel-churns, but is more particularly applicable foruse in connection with the stoneware or crockery churns in common use;but I do not wish to be limited to the use of the device to any specificform or construction of the body of the churn, but reserve the right toits use in connection with any form of churnbody to which it isapplicable.

For the purpose of illustration the device is shown applied to anordinary stoneware or crockery churn-body, (represented at 10.)

The improved device consists of a suspending-harness composed of straps11 12, of any suitable material, encircling the churn intermediately ofits ends and provided with buckles 13 14 of ordinary form to enable thestraps to be tightly drawn around the churn. The straps 11 12 areprovided with rings 15 16, by which suspension-straps 17 18 areconnected, as by snaps 19 20 of the usual construction. The straps 11 12are spaced apart, as shown, and located, preferably, at the center -thecover member, as shown.

of gravity, so that the churn will hang without tendency to tilt whensuspended. To sustain the straps 11 12, a longitudinal stay-strap 21will be employed, connected to the straps at opposite sides of the churnand disposed longitudinally thereof, as shown.

Surrounding the churn-body at its open end is a band 22, preferably ofmetal and with its ends turned at right angles to the band and connectedby a clamp-bolt 23, whereby the-band may be tightly clamped to thechurn. Stoneware or crockeryware churns are generally formed with abead24 around the mouth 'or open end, and the band 22 will be placed just inthe rear of this bead, the bead thus preventing outward movement of theband and the swell of the churn-body preventing any inward movementthereof.

Attached to the band 22 at opposite sides are ears 25 26, extending bothin advance and in the rear of the band, the rearward extensionsproviding means for the attachment of the ends of the stay-straps 21, asshown at 27 28, while the outward extensions are perforated in advanceof the open end of the churn, as indicated.

The churn-body is provided with a cover member 29, having a flange 30extending over the beaded end 24 and with a rubber or other similarflexible packing means 31 between them, as shown. The ears 25 and 26extend sufliciently in advance of the churn-body to bring theperforations in their outer ends beyond the outer face of the covermember, so that the ends of a lock-bar 32may be inserted through theperforations and extend over By this means the cover member will be heldin position, and to compress it with suflicient force to prevent leakagea clamp-screw 33 is provided, operating through the bar and against thecover member, as shown.

The dasher is represented at 34 and may be of any desired form, but forthe purpose of illustration is represented as a simple disk having ashank or stock 35 secured to the inner face of the cover member. Thecover member is formed with a central cavity 36, in which the end of theshank is supported and held detachably in position by a catch 37entering a recess 38 in the dasher -stock, as shown. The catch ispivoted at one end at 39 to the cover member and held yieldably inposition in engagement with the recess in the dasher-stock by a spring40, as shown. The latch-bar is further held in place by a keeper 41,connected to the cover member and under which the latch-bar operates. Bythis simple means the dasher may be attached and detached when requiredand when in position is immovable relative to the cover member andchurn-body.

The supporting-frame consists of a head member 42, having diverging legs43, 44, 45, and 46 to increase the base-support and prevent any tendencyto overturn and provided with longitudinally-extending arms 47 48. Thesuspension-straps 17 18 are connected to the extremities of the arms 4748, by which means the churn-body and its attachments are supportedbetween the leg members of the frame, as shown. By this simple means thechurn is supported in position to be rapidly vibrated to produce therequisite agitation of the cream to cause the separation of the butterparticles, and the ordinary stoneware churn may be utilized as avibrating churn without danger of breakage and be disposed in positionto be very quickly denuded of its suspensionharness when required forcleansing or when not in use.

The strap parts of the device may be leather, canvas webbing, sheetmetal, or any other suitable material.

Thedevice may be applied to any size or form of churn-body or to churns.of any capacity.

Any number of the body-straps ll 12 and stay-straps 21 may be employed;but generally two of the former and one of the latter will besuificient.

It will be noted that the bar 32 will be detached with the cover 29 30,while the straps 11, 12, and 21 and band 22 and its clips 25 26 remainon the churn.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In achurn-operating apparatus, a supporting-frame having longitudinalextensions at its upper end, a churn-suspending harness consisting ofspaced straps adapted for detachable connection around the body of achurn intermediately of its ends, a stay-strap adapted to be disposedlongitudinally of the churn and connected with said body-straps, andsuspension-straps connected detachably between said body-straps and thelongitudinal extensions of said frame, substantially as described.

2. A churn-suspending means consisting of one or more straps adapted todetachably encircle a churn intermediately of its ends, a band adaptedto be detachably arranged around one end of the churn, a stay-strapconnected by its ends with the opposite sides of said band andencircling the churn longitudinally and connected with said body-straps,and suspension-straps detachably connected with said body-straps,substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WARREN LEE GOODWIN.

Witnesses:

H. J. NAUNHEIM, R. E. BOUTWELL.

